New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-23
GRADY At HOME.
rSom IN. Menph6 Ardlanehe.

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around the southern circuit search newspaper
lanta and called upon Mr.. Grady.
Grady Ind no, the honor Of my scauantsnce NY mis-.
sion was one or business exclusively, and the social
amenities OF journalism lost sight Of In the hope Of
getting job at almost anything week In front Of The
Constitution building saw three reporters standing and
gazing revercntally up the hirdhoor corner window,
fknew them TO be reporters by their fashionable attire
and intellectual foreheads asked them in what part OF
the building Mr. Grady might be found They simply point
looking and resumed their prisons The ele boy
cn Mr. Gra&y door He evidently 0' SSs
me rash At the second on several compos-
itors knew they were composors because they were
careless in ranlent and bore themselves men who
carry the earth In typestck
"fremarked to ono OF them that wished TO Mr..
'iather It was you than me- he replied with sym
patty that was little puzZing 10 me- then. IL didn't puz-
ze me ten minutes later
ION reaching tho thr floor, the elevator boy pointed
me silently down u spacious hall lined with plants
bronze and marble. At the further end a massive
was round hole about the s1o OF half dollar and just
below this silver beIlpull gave the knob twist and
In a mellow tenor voice was heard through tho
opening asking who was there told my name and bus
ness.
Beg pardon for standing you or said the owner Of
the voice. opening the door thought you were Con
gressman we're so pestered withem here
- entered luIuI0usly appointed ANTERIOR and
fronted handsome young man wearing priceless da-
"wnit here until seek The Presence he said sol
EMMY and disappeared through an inner door.
BY this time nerve was as scarce about my person as
the price OF board.
{" Presently the handsome young returned and
said. He will zee you.
followed him and found myself In Mr. Grady's au-
dence chamber 1t furnished with Oriental splcndor
There four persons IN the roothe Governor Of the
State United States Senator, stenographer and the
was seeking The great journalist was seated on
rich dvan debating To tho stenoyapher while the others
hung breahessy upon his words took him be about
forty old He Is thick set and has the appearance
OF whose stomach never gets left, II he knows IT,
His head round and covered with short growth OF
black hair his face saow smooth shaver and lighted by
pair of cold piercing black eyes HIS voice Is well mod
ulaed but penetrating II went through me like knitting
needle and stuck in the wall beyond.
"'Tell him. he said TO the shorthand man, I have
my eye upon You and II Gordon does not geta majority
of the delegation from your county Well. sir. sud
denly discovering me, what do you WANT
81 thought Uncle Remus was here. stammered out
Nothing else occurred to me. was paralyzed.
You'll find him down at Miss Sallys, replied Mr..
Grady, and somehow In about minute found myself
on tho pavement outside.
Everybody in Atlanta seems to regard Mr. Grady 80
the greatest product OF Georgia. and the awful
with which lie Is treated Is not confined TO the employees
OF The Consultation. He is the king beo In that Jug town
and y0nd all compare Is the most OverpOwerng jour-
nalistio magnate ever encountered"